The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-11-12
RANK BRAGGARDlSM.
Republican Partisnns Trying to Pose as
Political Salp,tu

Republican Partisnns Trying to Pose as
Political Saints.
The Republican State Committee has
issued aleatlets containing list of the
great deeds done by the party, presum-
ably unaided and alone. The follow
ing are, perhaps, the most conspicuous
and brilliant:
1t subdued the rebellion and saved the Union.
1t raised the Nation from bankruptcy, and Sc
cured for public credit the faith OF the tnan.
cial world.
It has practically given each citizen free
home by securing the public domain from the
monopoly Of capital.
1t has made competency q condition of ap-
pOntment to Office and fidelity to duty tho ten
ure Of holding 1t.
These are only samples of large
line of heroic measures which consti-
tute the Republican demand for anoth-
er lease of power. 1t will be seen at
a casual glance that the party Is COM
posed of all the professional saints in
population of something over sixty
million people. They regard them
selves as the only authorized agents
for the importation of political virtue
from the New Jerusalem. and have
formed combine" to hold the article
for rise of the market.
If we look little closely at the facts,
however, we find that these Republic
ans have not q clear title to their claim.
They have the convenient faculty of
forgetfulness, and, while vividly re-
calling certain parts of the evidence.
utterly disrcmember other parts
equally important. For example, when
they declare that they have ''practi-
cally given each citizen free home by
securing the public domain from the
monopoly of capital" we recall Baron
Munchausen, who had the same habit
of extolling himself for heroic achieve
ments which were all in his eye. The
cold, unflinching records of history
show that the Republican party has
uniformly played into the hands of the
monopoly of capital" and deliberate
ly cheated nearly a million and half
of our citizens out of farms of one hun
dred and sixty acres each by giving over
two hundred million acres of the pub
lie domain to big corporations, cattle
syndicates, land spectators and aliens.
AS to making competency condi-
ton OF appointment to Office and fdel-
ity to duty the tenure for holding it,
we rise to remark that Civil-Service
reform properly administered keeps II
faithful servant of the public in office
regardless of his politics, but that on
the advent of Democratic Admins
tration and when the books were
looked over it was found that Demo-
Gratis holding even minor offices were
as scarce us hens teeth. With the
rarest exceptions every position within
the gift of the Government was held
by a Republican partisan, whose sal
airy was assessed for political purposes
and whose position was used as CEN
ter of political influence.
Well, let the Republicans go ahead
on their own line. They know what
they can do best, and since it is boast
ing, why, lot them boast to their hearts
content. This is II FREQ country, and if
they can persuade the people to think
rs much OF them as they seem to think
of themselves, all right. Ours is a
Government of the people, for the peo-
pie and by the people, and no one can
deny that the people are king.
The Republicans have no principles
to fight for, or If they have they con-
ceal them very successfully. What
( the country needs and must have If it
Is to be prosperous is an administra-
tion that represents the whole Repub-
lie from Maine to the Pacific and from
the lakes to the Gulf. Now. the Re-
publican party never has done that.
1t was not born to do it. It
Is essentially sectional party,
and never has been any thing
else. II has not only neglected the
millions Of the South, but It never in
dorses = party platform without OK
pressing asnspicionof them Its busi-
ness at the presen ) moment is not to
unite North and South, but to keep
them asander 1tis as plain us a pike
stat, therefore. that the next President